Messages in this thread | | | From | "Hong-Gunn Chew" <> | Subject | File corruption when running VMware. | Date | Wed, 24 Apr 2002 12:54:07 +0930 |
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I have a repeatable problem when running VMware workstation 3.00 and 3.01. The cause is still unknown, and could be VMware itself, the hardware or the kernel.
When running VMware, a file read from disk can be corrupted and will stay corrupted in memory in the disk cache. It can be reproduced by checking the md5sum of a large file (>200MB), with different results each time when VMware is running. Further tests shows the corruption occurs only at the 3rd byte of a 16-byte block, and only the LSB is affected. Load on the machine is minimal and VMware is at the BIOS setup screen.
Has anyone encountered this problem before? I can provide any additional information that might be useful.
Cheers, Hong-Gunn
System configuration: CPU: P4 2.0A 2.0GHz RAM: 4x256MB RDRAM PC800 MB: ASUS P4-TE firmware:1005 Intel i850 Disk: IBM Deskstar 120GXP 80GB Graphics: ATI 7500 OEM
Distri: RedHat 7.2 Kernel: 2.4.18 X: Xfree 4.2 glibc: 2.2.4-19.3
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